Football: Somers makes own name in repeating in Class A

11:33 PM,
Nov. 9, 2013

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When it faced a must-stop fourth-and-goal at the 5, the Somers defense looked nothing like a year ago. The jerseys were about all that connected the two teams.

These Tuskers had just three starters back in their return to Mahopac, a place that was so kind to them a year ago. But when it needed a goal-line stand in the fourth quarter against perhaps the section's highest-powered offense, all those new Somers names proved they were worth remembering, too.

The Tuskers stuffed Rye inside the 1 to preserve a one-touchdown lead with less than four minutes to play. They went on to beat the previously ...